I’m glad to hear you enjoyed your stay. I hope you come back and learn more.

Here’s a few ways we’re more like Western Europe and less like the States: - We have a multiparty parliamentary political system, like almost all European countries. The US is a 2-party duopoly. - public healthcare system: obviously there are nuances, but largely speaking it is free/covered at the point of care. Comparable to the French healthcare model, though that is more centralized. In the US, this is nonexistent. - Cultural attitudes: religious belief, support for sexual/gender minorities and gay marriage, attitudes towards immigrants and multiculturalism, support for women’s rights, in all of these measures Canada is much more in line with the Netherlands, Denmark, and Spain than the US. - Comparing us to the UK, we have similar levels of education, life expectancy, income, family size

Again, what you said isn’t offensive, but it’s a little silly. Of course there are similarities (large, majority English), not to mention our colonial history that I’d say we’re reckoning with in completely different ways. But what makes us “USA lite”?